Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-28
TO PENSION SOLDIERS, PARENTS.


The Senate Passes the Bill Just as 1t
Comes From the House.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The bill passed by
the Senate to day for the relief of dependent
parents and honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors who are now disabled and Deepen
dent upon their own labor for support is as
follows:
Be it enacted, etc.:
That in considering the pension claims of
dependent parents, the fact and cause OF
death and the fact that the soldier left no
widow or minor children having been shown
as required by law, it shall be necessary only
to show by competent and sufficient evidence
that such parent or parents are without other
present means of support than their own
manual labor or the contributions of others
not legally bound for their support, provided
that no pension allowed under this act shall
commence prior to its passage and in case of
applications hereafter made under this act
the pension shall commence from the date of
the filing of the application of the pension
Office.
Sec. 2. That all persons who served three
months or more in the military or naval SER
vice of the United States in any war in
which the United States has been engaged
and who have been honorably discharged
therefrom, and who are now or may here
after be suffering from mental or physical
disability not the result of their own vicious
habits or gross carelessness which incapaci-
tates them for the performance of labor in
such a degree as to render them unable to
Import those dependent upon them for sup
port, shall upon making due proof of the fact
according to such rules and regulations as the
Secretary of the Interior may provide In
pursuance of this act, be placed on the list
of invalid pensioners of the United States
and be entitled to receive for such
total inability to procure their sub
sistence by daily labor $12 per
month, and such pension to commence from
the date of the fling of the application in
the pension Office upon proof that the disablll-
ty then existed and continued during the ex-
istence of the same in the degree herein pro-
vided; provided that persons who are now
receiving pensions under existing laws or
whose claims are pending in the pension
Office may by application to the commissioner
of pensions in such forms as he may pre-
scribe, receive the benefits of this act, but
nothing herein contained shall be construed
as to allow more than one pension at the
same time to the same person or pension to
commence prior to the passage of this act:
and provided further that rank in the SER
vice shall not be considered in applications
filed Hereunder.
Sec. 3. That no agent, attorney or other
person instrumental in the presentation and
prosecution of claim under this act shall
demand or receive for his services or instru-
mentality in presenting and prosecuting such
claim sum greater than SIS payable only
upon the order of the commissioner of pen
sions by the pension agent making payment
| of the pension allowed, except in cases here
| tofore prosecuted before the pension Office.
when in the discretion of the commissioner
| of pensions fee of SO may be allowed in
| like manner to the agent or attorney of lee
ord in the case at the date of the passage of
this act, and any agent, attorney or other
instrumental in the prosecution of claim
| under this act who shall demand or receive
a sum greater than that herein provided
| for for his service in the prosecution of a
claim shall be subjected to the same penal
| ties as prescribed in section of the act OF
July 4, 1888, entitled "An act making ap
preparation for the payment of pensions OF
| the United States for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1885, and for other purposes"
| Sec 4. That section 4,716 of the revised
statutes is hereby modified SO that the same
shall not apply to this act, provided that THU
act shall not apply to those persons unde
| political disabilities and no person shall be
| pensioned under this act for any disabilit.
gained while engaged in the military ser
i vice against the United States.